Essex SOA Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) skills within the Essex region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited SOA over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Location Alderley Edge Andover Avon Basildon Berkshire Birmingham Brentwood Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheshire City of London Croydon Docklands, London Dover East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Gerrards Cross Glasgow Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hove Ipswich Jersey Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Preston Reading Rickmansworth Salford Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Whyteleafe Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	36	38
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching contract IT job ads	20	22
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.027 %	0.022 %
As % of the category below	5.333 %	5.978 %
Daily rates quoted	7	13
Average minimum daily rate	£371	£454
Average daily rate	£377	£467
% change on same period last year	-19.40 %
Average maximum daily rate	£382	£481
UK excluding London average daily rate	£403	£420
% change on same period last year	-4.05 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£40.29	-
Average hourly rate	£40.89	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£41.50	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£40.88	£35.00
% change on same period last year	+16.78 %
Processes & Methodologies Essex
Matching contract IT job ads	375	368
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.500 %	0.372 %
Daily rates quoted	149	129
Average minimum daily rate	£387	£389
Average daily rate	£404	£412
% change on same period last year	-2.01 %
Average maximum daily rate	£421	£436
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	43	69
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.36	£33.11
Average hourly rate	£35.78	£33.52
% change on same period last year	+6.75 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.20	£33.92
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
SOA East of England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

SOA
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing SOA across the Essex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

SOA
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing SOA across the Essex region.

SOA
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SOA across the Essex region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

SOA
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing SOA across the Essex region.

SOA
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing SOA across the Essex region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

SOA
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOA within the Essex region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Brentwood	-	6	£350	-
Basildon	-	3	£350	-

SOA East of England

SOA
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region citing SOA also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited SOA.

1 27 (77.14 %) J2EE 2 24 (68.57 %) WebServices 3 20 (57.14 %) Java 4 17 (48.57 %) WebSphere 5 16 (45.71 %) Zachman Framework 6 15 (42.86 %) XML 7 14 (40.00 %) Construction 8 13 (37.14 %) RUP 9 11 (31.43 %) Unified Process 10 9 (25.71 %) XML Schema 11 7 (20.00 %) WSDL 11 7 (20.00 %) UML 11 7 (20.00 %) SOAP 12 6 (17.14 %) Struts 12 6 (17.14 %) Automotive

12 6 (17.14 %) BPEL 13 4 (11.43 %) Education 14 2 (5.714 %) Process Management 15 1 (2.857 %) Finance 15 1 (2.857 %) SSL 15 1 (2.857 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 15 1 (2.857 %) German Language 15 1 (2.857 %) Technical Architecture 15 1 (2.857 %) Cryptography 15 1 (2.857 %) Publishing

SOA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region citing SOA also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited SOA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 27 (77.14 %) J2EE 2 24 (68.57 %) WebServices 3 17 (48.57 %) WebSphere 4 15 (42.86 %) XML 5 9 (25.71 %) XML Schema 6 7 (20.00 %) WSDL 6 7 (20.00 %) SOAP 7 6 (17.14 %) Struts	Communications & Networking 1 1 (2.857 %) SSL
General 1 14 (40.00 %) Construction 2 6 (17.14 %) Automotive 3 4 (11.43 %) Education 4 1 (2.857 %) Publishing 4 1 (2.857 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 31 (88.57 %) Architect 2 14 (40.00 %) Solutions Architect 3 6 (17.14 %) J2EE Architect 3 6 (17.14 %) SOA Architect 4 5 (14.29 %) Technical Architect 5 4 (11.43 %) Consultant 5 4 (11.43 %) SOA Consultant 6 2 (5.714 %) Applications Architect 6 2 (5.714 %) J2EE Solutions Architect 6 2 (5.714 %) Java Architect 7 1 (2.857 %) Developer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (2.857 %) Cryptography 1 1 (2.857 %) German Language	Processes & Methodologies 1 16 (45.71 %) Zachman Framework 2 13 (37.14 %) RUP 3 11 (31.43 %) Unified Process 4 7 (20.00 %) UML 5 6 (17.14 %) BPEL 6 2 (5.714 %) Process Management 7 1 (2.857 %) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages 1 20 (57.14 %) Java	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.857 %) Sarbanes-Oxley